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Diego de Leo is Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Griffith University in Brisbane. Professor de Leo was President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) and co-founder and Past-President of the International Academy for Suicide Research (IASR) of which he is also co-founder of the journal Archives of Suicide Research.
He was the initiator (2003) of the World Suicide Prevention Day (10 September). Professor de Leo has published extensively, with more than 500 peer-reviewed articles. He is Director of the Department of Psychology at Primorska University, Slovenia, and President of the Italian Association of Psychogeriatrics.
